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I am a dedicated translator with over 10 years of experience on translating from English and around 4 years from Italian into my native Turkish. I studied Italian Language and Literature at Istanbul University, and I have been mostly involved in translations of legal documents, commercial texts, academic papers, and technical texts like user manuals and technical specifications in various industries.

To get a reliable and accurate translation, I advise my clients to ask for a sample translation on the text they wish to get translated. This way, they can enjoy a hassle-free service, without having to lose time by waiting for a poor result on a job in its entirety.

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A spectre is haunting the translation industry – the spectre
of machine translation. As the fear to be driven out of the marketplace is
advancing inland further into the heart of every business due to the technological
developments, translators are also having their fair shares of this fear – the
machines taking our jobs! How we’ve been dealing with this challenge is projecting what
seems to be going to happen to us. Most of the professional comments I’ve read
so far indicate that a big part of the market is still unable to predict what
the future holds for us. We are just hiding our fears by laughing away the incompetent
results of neural machine translations. Some claim that MT still has a long way –several decades– to
go until human translators are expelled and forced out of the market, but how
much headway MT has made over the past decades is ignored, let alone its
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to the Persian vocabulary, Indic languages have undergone the same route, it
seems, through royal administrations, and religious and secular literature. The
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cultural differences between Turkey and India, it is only natural that people are
baffled at this lexical similarity. However, in spite
of this shared background, relations between the two cultures don’t seem to
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favorite passtime items, with its attracting design and concise structure. As a translator, I collect dictionaries but not only for the
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